Iowa Indie Game Jam #3 success

The third Iowa Indie Game Jam was a great success!  It was held this weekend October 17-19 in Cedar Falls at the apartment of Andres Reinot, an 8monkey Labs co-founder.  He hosted an artist from Phantom EFX, several hobbyists and ISU students from Ames, four members of our company Intuition Games, and some friends and [...]

Hey, it’s another Iowa Indie Game Jam. 2D vs. 3D

On October 18th, some friends at 8Monkey Labs are hosting another Iowa Indie Game Jam with us. This will be the third in about the span of a year and will take place in Cedar Falls, IA. We think it’ll be the best yet! Basically we’ll all get together for a weekend and try to [...]

Iowa Indie Game Jam #2 Starts Now!

We’re here and we’ve cracked open the laptops. It’s time to begin. I’m going to set up a chat in this post for those who are participating remotely and anyone who wants to “stop by” and say hi.
(Game Jam is over, chat removed)

Iowa Indie Game Jam #2 This Weekend

Bigger. Better. Baddassier. The Iowa Indie Game Jam is back. Game development indie style is happening this weekend in Ames, Iowa. Not sure what game we’re going to make yet. As for platform, current discussion is between DS homebrew, Flash, and Silverlight.
It’s going to be awesome. And we’ll [...]

Text Message Game Development.

I was downtown at a cafe on game jam night, and since I don’t have a laptop I had to improvise which turned out to be a very unique game developing experience. I haven’t done any research on this topic or anything but I think I may have pioneered a new method which I am [...]

Iowa Indie Game Jam 2007

This weekend was the first Iowa Indie Game Jam, and it was a great success. Its beginnings were humble and spontaneous. Andres came down to Des Moines to see the coolness that is going on here - this weekend it was The Grey Market. While visiting, he proposed having a game development [...]